My wife and I were watching that Bobby Flay Throwdown show on Food Network last night and it was a competition over donuts. Well they bring in the 2 judges and one of them is a police detective. But not just any cop, hes a NEW YORK CITY POLICE DETECTIVE. He made sure to let us know that he’s no run of the mill copper. He’s one of those special ones from NYC. The tougher ones.
This happens ALL the time. People from NYC must feel the need to let everyone know they are from NYC for some clique factor or like it’s some special secret society. Your not just a fireman, they’re a NEW YORK CITY fireman. My professor didn’t just grow up like the rest of us. He grew up in NEW YORK CITY and he lets us know at least once a day. I’m not just a garbage man, I’m a NEW YORK CITY garbage man. I’m not just a housewife, I’m a NEW YORK CITY housewife.
My wife and I were talking about it and we agreed that these NYC folk need to get over themselves because it doesn’t make you extra special or make us care about you any more just because you are from NYC. This is the only location on the planet that spits out people with this compulsion. You rarely ever hear someone say “I’m a LOS ANGLES cop” or “I’m an ATLANTA fireman”.
They’fve always done this but it’s increased x10 since 9/11. It’s getting old and it’s making NYC folks look foolish and full of themselves.
Just stop because none one gives a fuck that you are from NYC other than yourselves. And that’s coming from an air force officer, not just any Air Force officer but a CENTRAL ILLINOIS Air Force Officer.
Amen, Biggirl. God, why the hell is that guy on TV. anyway? What freakin’ focus group gave him the greenlight? Is there really that big of a market for dickheads? ::looks at US Executive Branch Org Chart:: Ummmm, never mind…
And yeah, I don’t understand why everyone lines up to fellate the NYPD/NYFD, either.
Well, that’s not ordinary garbage we’re talking about.
Sooner or later, all that stuff buried deep at the Fresh Kills landfill is going to interact in some very unusual molecular combinations, and a major rupture in the earth’s crust is likely to ensue. Mark my words.
True. I’ve noticed that quite a few NYers play the “I’m from NYC” card whenever the topic of conversation turns to 9/11, as if the rest of us can’t really understand the tragedy.
That’s the thing though. It’s not just cops and firemen that do this. It’s EVERYBODY from NYC. And it’s not in an informative “Hey I’m from NYC where are you from” way either. It’s in a tone that lets you know that they are tougher/smarter/cooler/special/better than the avg earthling because they reside in NYC. We’ve all heard it. Hell, you hear it every time someone from NYC is being interviewed on TV. You hear it every time you are at a meeting or start a new class and they go around the room and ask your background. Every in the room may mention where they went to school and where they have worked but the guy from NYC will stat off letting you know he grew up in Brooklyn or whatever other dumb shit that no one cares about but him.
It’s tiring and it really grates on me now.
As far as Bobby Flay goes, it was on the tube and we just watched the last 5 minutes of the show. My wife hates him because he is a grown man and still insists on being called “Bobby”.
TV is guilty of this all the time. How many shows are set in New York? Sometimes it seems like pretty much all of them, as if interesting things don’t happen outside of the five boroughs. It’s a shame really, since Chicago is really a much better city, with better pizza and hot dogs plus the added side benefit of not smelling like urine.
As a native of NEW YORK CITY (ok, one of the outer boroughs), I have never fellated, let alone lined up to fellate, any member of the NYPD, NYFD, NY EMS, or any other city employee.
Yeah, it’s a 9-11 phenomenon. Like people from New York weren’t fucking proud and obnoxious before 9-11… :rolleyes:
As for the 9-11 thing, if you happen to be talking to someone about the terrorist attacks, wouldn’t you want to know that they’re from one of the places that got hit? Might make sense to know they might have first-hand experience with the tragedy. Would you rather they sit there quietly and not relate those experiences?
Suppose you were talking about Woodstock. Yeah, you might have seen the movie, but suppose someone participating in the discussion had seen it live? Wouldn’t it make sense for them to pipe up? Jeez.
The propensity for New Yorkers to let people know where they’re from is something that goes back a lot further than 2001.
Oh, and another thing. I live in Arlington, VA, where one of the planes struck on 9/11. Arlington’s police and fire departments (along with others) performed heroically on that day, saving lives while risking their own. I don’t see anybody wearing Arlington PD/FD baseball hats or t-shirts around.
As a transplanted New Yorker living in the NJ suburbs I have it the other way around. My neighbors think I’m very strange because don’t own an SUV, take the bus frequently, walk everywhere, eat food with spices and get a little freaked out by deer and skunks in people’s backyards. We live twenty miles outside of Manhattan but they act like the city is some vast and dangerous place halfway to Mars that one should only set foot in with a gun in your back pocket.
Give New Yorkers a break. They live in tiny, noisy holes-in-the-wall, have to walk on dirty, smelly streets every day of their lives, can’t buy the kinds of basic household items that the rest of us take for granted without getting on a bus to New Jersey, need two hours for a two mile commute, are constantly victimized by lazy if not malicious service workers, and get to pay an outrageous cost of living for the privilege of doing so.
If they want to be all cocky about coming from America’s Third World, they can go ahead and do that.
It’s probably because people with delusions of moral superiority like to point to New York City as a den of vice and corruption. So if you’re from there you can either grin and agree, or you can get in someone’s face and be proud about it.
New York City wasn’t targeted by terrorists twice by coincidence. The World Trade Center was a symbol to the world. Like it or not, NYC is how a lot of the world views us. Warts and all, I’d still rather that than being lumped in with a bunch of fundamentalist Christians burning Harry Potter books.
